“How Can We See Pain?” – photography exhibition, June 22 – July 22

This project talks about pain, an emotion that is often found in our close environment: people feel emotionally low or have strong emotional pain, but most of the time no one ever notices, for one simple reason – the inner pain usualy stays inside.

But what if we could see the inside of the people that suffer pain?Seven people were invited to participate in the experiment, where each of them was given an easily deformable object. With the consent of the participants, they were made to feel a mild physical pain, while expressing it through the given objects.

Intact and damaged objects symbolise pain, that can be found inside all of us, it can change our psychological and even physical state, but not always recognised by the outer world. They represent the connection between physical and emotional pain and how they interchange, where physical pain affects our emotions, and inner pain damages us or others physicaly.

Through the contrast of ‘healthy’ and damaged items these photographs give some food for thoughts: the irreversable damage pain creates, how it can be stoped without spreading it around.

This project touches the subject that is familiar to all of us, in one way or another. Therefore the team of people behind this project found one another through common discussions, trials and findings.

Photographers – Titas ir Augustė, extra hands and brain – Evelina. The author of the idea and project coordinator – Neringa, who also found all the likeminded individuals with their visible and invisible sincere emotions.